Cool jazz

Cool jazz is a type of jazz that is understated and subtle and often encompasses West coast jazz or West coast cool, which originated primarily from California. The Claude Thornhill Orchestra and Lennie Tristano recorded cool jazz as early as the late 1940s. Thornhill's most popular song "Snowfall" is still played today.

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Along with the bebop movement developed during the 1940s, the 1950s ushered in a lighter, more romantic style of jazz called "cool." The roots of cool jazz can be traced back to various earlier styles.

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Some other cool jazz artists:

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• Dave Brubeck with Paul Desmond
• Modern Jazz Quartet
• Gerry Mulligan with Chet Baker
• Miles Davis with Bill Evans
• Lee Konitz
• Chico Hamilton
• George Shearing
• Shelly Manne
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Jazz: :For other article subjects named Jazz see jazz (disambiguation)....

West coast jazz: West coast jazz is a form of jazz music that developed around Los Angeles at about the same time as hard bop jazz was developing in New York City, in the 1950s and 1960s. West Coast Jazz was generally seen as a subgenre of cool jazz....

California: California is a state located on the west coast of the United States. It is the most populous state in the U.S., as well as physically the most diverse, with the highest and the lowest points in the lower 48 states located within 150 miles of each other. If California were an independent nation, it...




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